Walking again after paralysis: Early study suggests stimulation could jolt spinal cord back to life

After a traumatic motorcycle collision in 2017, Michel Roccati was left completely paralyzed from the waist down. He couldn’t have imagined that a few years later, he would be walking through the streets of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Roccati is one of three men who has had his motor function restored — able to stand, walk, swim, and cycle again — with electrical stimulation of key spinal cord nerves that control lower-body movements. Read the rest…